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The WHO is experiencing its own outbreak of coronavirus, with Tedros spending 17 days in quarantine - though he said he had not developed any symptoms.
Five new cases within the same WHO team have been registered in the past week, WHO official Maria Van Kerkhove said.
Reported breakthroughs in Covid-19 vaccine research are “encouraging”, the World Health Organization’s chief said on Monday, but voiced concern about surging cases and warned against complacency, AFP reports.
“We continue to receive encouraging news about Covid-19 vaccines,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual press briefing.
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